Widespread monolingual practices have often overlooked the plurilingual and pluricultural skills of superdiverse children -- skills such as their ability to draw on linguistic and cultural competencies -- in both formal and informal educational settings. However, arts-based multimodal activities can help reveal children's "invisible"…

This paper reports on a multimodal teaching approach delivered to grade 5 elementary students in a bilingual school in Hong Kong, as part of a larger research study aimed at supporting English Language Learners (ELLs) in science class. As language demands of reading, writing and talking science place additional challenges on ELLs, there is much…